Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1856-13 March 1881) was a Narodnaya Volya member and the assassin of Czar Alexander II of Russia.

Biography
Ignacy Hryniewiecki was born in Kalinovka, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) in 1856 to a family of Polish nobility, and he studied mathematics in St. Petersburg after 1875. In 1880, he distributed revolutionary propaganda to students and workers, and he worked as a typesetter at a print shop. In 1881, he joined a bomb-throwing unit that was ordered to assassinate Alexander II of Russia. On 13 March 1881, Hryniwiecki launched a suicide bombing against Czar Alexander, throwing a bomb at his feet and shouting "It is too soon to thank God." Hryniewiecki died of his wounds later that day, as did the czar.